From: Damien Broderick (thespike@earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 20:58:31 MST
Ron h. says:
> if you look in the newspaper files of any large public
> library and examine the newspapers of the mid and late fifties you will
find
> ample proof that multitudes of people fled the totalitarian north due to
the
> suppression of Ho Chi Minh and his helpers.
And bear in mind that US newspapers of the mid fifties were, like HUAAC,
exceptional for their dedication to the truth.
Without taking a position, however, on the substance of Ron's comment, it
would be interesting to know how many of those fleeing from atheistic
communists were Catholics. If they'd been Scientologists or Heaven's Gaters,
would the US newspapers of the mid fifties have been as sympathetic? Would
extropians, given the prejudice most of us share against delusional systems
imposed in childhood under the whip of metaphysical fear and guilt upon the
undefended?
Damien Broderick
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